By Troy Gillard

ANOTHER SLIGHT INCREASE

Red Deer with 190 active COVID-19 cases

Feb 1, 2021 | 3:52 PM

Alberta confirmed 355 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday.

That’s out of 7,294 test results over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of about 4.9 per cent.

The number of active cases in the province is down to 7,387, a decrease of 118 from Sunday. Recoveries are up 463 to a total of 115,527.

There are 556 Albertans in hospital due to COVID-19, down five, including 102 in intensive care, up one

Another 10 deaths were reported in the past 24 hours bringing Alberta’s total from COVID-19 to 1,649.

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Through the end of Sunday, Alberta has administered 106,347 doses of COVID-19 vaccine. More than 16,200 Albertans have now received two doses and are fully inoculated.

The number of active COVID-19 cases in Red Deer as of Monday sits at 190, up three from Sunday. There have been 1,678 recoveries, an increase of nine as the total number of cases attributed to Red Deer rose by 12 to a total of 1,887. The number of deaths in Red Deer because of COVID-19 remains 19.

Red Deer County has 20 active cases as of Monday, a decrease of four, while Sylvan Lake has 30, down one.

Lacombe County has 31 active cases and the city of Lacombe has 18, both unchanged from Sunday.

Clearwater County (Rocky Mountain House) has 61 active cases, an increase of two.

The active case count in Ponoka County sits at 138, down three over the past 24 hours.

Mountain View County remains with 11 active cases, Olds held steady with five and Kneehill County still has three. Stettler and County remain with six active cases.

The Central Zone has 709 active cases as of Monday, an increase of nine, with 46 hospitalizations, which is an increase of two. Six people are receiving intensive care for COVID-19 at Red Deer Regional Hospital, unchanged from Sunday. The zone has had 87 deaths as a result of COVID-19, none of which were reported in the past 24 hours.

Currently, 298 schools in the province, about 12 per cent, are on alert or have outbreaks, with 701 cases in total. The province says in-school transmission has likely occurred in 66 schools and that these, 51 have had only one new case occurred as a result.

“We have reached a place where we should be able to further ease measures on Feb. 8, but we have seen cases fall and rise before,” Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health said Monday afternoon.

“We all must remain vigilant to be extra careful to keep schools, continuing care facilities and all other settings safe, and to keep our hospitalizations trending downwards. We must all keep doing our part.”

Hinshaw said the number of COVID-19 variant cases in the province as of Monday had risen to 51, up from 37 on Friday.

On the heels of last week’s single case of the U.K. variant without a travel source, labs have confirmed three more cases between two households.

“We don’t know a travel history, and with this new confirmed case result of these three, we will be doing further investigations to determine any sources or linkages,” Hinshaw explained.

“We have been calling for Premier Jason Kenney to present Albertans with a plan to respond to these variants and with daily updates. That plan would include new quarantine requirements for international and domestic air travelers, and more testing for these highly contagious COVID-19 variants. We didn’t get any of these things today and that doesn’t build public trust that the province is ready,” said NDP Health Critic David Shepherd.

“I am very worried that without a provincial plan to respond to these variants the premier is gambling with a re-opening plan that may have to quickly snap back into restrictions and create more hardship and uncertainty for Alberta families and businesses.”